2010 Locus Award Winners

Here is a short list of this year's Locus Award Winners


Science Fiction Novel: Blackout/All Clear, Connie Willis (Spectra)

YA Book: Ship Breaker, Paolo Bacigalupi (Little, Brown)

Novella: The Lifecycle of Software Objects, Ted Chiang (Subterranean)

Novelette: “The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains”, Neil Gaiman (Stories)

Short Story: “The Thing About Cassandra”, Neil Gaiman (Songs of Love and Death)

Go to SF Awards Watch for complete listing

This Year's Locus Award Winners

From Science Fiction Award Watch

Here is a partial listing of the results of this year’s Locus Awards.

• Science Fiction Novel: Boneshaker, Cherie Priest (Tor)
• Fantasy Novel: The City & The City, China Miéville (Del Rey; Macmillan UK)
• First Novel: The Windup Girl, Paolo Bacigalupi (Night Shade)
• Young Adult Novel: Leviathan, Scott Westerfeld (Simon Pulse; Simon & Schuster UK)
• Novella: The Women of Nell Gwynne’s, Kage Baker (Subterranean)
• Novelette: “By Moonlight”, Peter S. Beagle (We Never Talk About My Brother)
• Short Story: “An Invocation of Incuriosity”, Neil Gaiman (Songs of the Dying Earth)

for a complete listing you can go here: Science Fiction Award Watch

Locus awards for 2009

Here are this year's Locus award winners thanks to Science Fiction Awards Watch blog

• Science Fiction Novel: Anathem, Neal Stephenson (Atlantic UK, Morrow)
• Fantasy Novel: Lavinia, Ursula K. Le Guin (Harcourt)
• First Novel: Singularity’s Ring, Paul Melko (Tor)
• Young-Adult Book: The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins, Bloomsbury)
• Novella: “Pretty Monsters”, Kelly Link (Pretty Monsters)
• Novelette: “Pump Six”, Paolo Bacigalupi (Pump Six and Other Stories)
• Short Story: “Exhalation”, Ted Chiang (Eclipse Two)

The Continuing Locus Award Soap Opera

Unless you live in a cave, you know that this year's Locus magazine award was fraught with controversy. This weekend I was reading down through SF Signal's blog and saw "Locus Award problems" What? More? This has got to be the 800 lb soap opera of a summer for Locus magazine. With that thought in mind, drawn I was, like moth to flame, to the SF Signal suggested, Visions of Paradise blog for a run on comment concerning just what went horribly wrong with the award this year. If you're not clear as to what happened, the editor of Visions of Paradise put it this way:

But Locus made the mistake of opening the voting to anybody who visits the Locus Online website, rather than restricting it to readers of the magazine. So this year the number of voters of the Locus Award who were not readers of the magazine apparently skewed some of the results away from the recommended stories pushed in the pages of the magazine. So as to minimize such free-thinking influence on the awards, the editors of Locus decided after the voting was completed to count the votes of Locus subscribers as double the value of non-subscribers.

As we know now, Cory Doctorow was a run away favorite in the voting, which either the person or the fact that non readers far outvoted readers of Locus, did not sit well with the editorial staff, so as you can see, they skewed the ranking until they got a result they were comfortable with.

Last thing I am going to say about this....its their award, in house I think they can and should do as they please, but on the flip side, when you open it to the public...don't piss on our heads and tell us it's raining.

Campbell & Sturgeon award winners?!

Wow, there has been some weirdness lately as concerns the current crop of awards. What I have been hearing is some real strangeness from Locus which is changing its voting system and now the Kansas City infoZine website seems to have leaked the winners of the Campbell and Sturgeon awards that were to be announced Friday.

The Campbell award will go to "In War Times" by Kathleen Ann Goonan. For the first time, there are two winners of the Sturgeon award: "Finisterra" by David R. Moles and "Tidelines" by Elizabeth Bear.

Kinda feels like cheatin huh? lol wonder whats up

infoZine via Science Fiction Award Watch

Locus Award winners announced

Reading down through Boing Boing I see that Cory posted the Locus winners for this year.
The awards were given out 6/21.

SF NOVEL
The Yiddish Policemen's Union, Michael Chabon

FANTASY NOVEL
Making Money, Terry Pratchett

YOUNG ADULT BOOK
Un Lun Dun, China Miéville

FIRST NOVEL
Heart-Shaped Box, Joe Hill

NOVELLA
"After the Siege", Cory Doctorow

NOVELETTE
"The Witch's Headstone", Neil Gaiman

SHORT STORY
"A Small Room in Koboldtown", Michael Swanwick

COLLECTION
The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories, Connie Willis

ANTHOLOGY The New Space Opera,
Gardner Dozois & Jonathan Strahan, eds.

My reading of Michael Swanwicks story is available in episodes 101 & 102

<complete Boing Boing post>

Locus’s best sf of 2007 list

From Cory Doctorow's Craphound:

The annual Locus Magazine Recommended Reading List just came out — it’s the critical consensus of Locus’s reviewers on the best science fiction and fantasy of the year, and a more reliable guide to great speculative fiction you will not find. I’m pleased to say that my short story collection Overclocked and my novella After the Siege made the cut! SF novels

* HARM, Brian W. Aldiss (Del Rey; Duckworth)
* The Sons of Heaven, Kage Baker (Tor)
* Conqueror, Stephen Baxter (Gollancz; Ace)
* Undertow, Elizabeth Bear (Bantam Spectra)
* Till Human Voices Wake Us, Mark Budz (Bantam Spectra)
* The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, Michael Chabon (HarperCollins)
* Spook Country, William Gibson (Putnam; Viking UK)
* In War Times, Kathleen Ann Goonan (Tor)
* The Accidental Time Machine, Joe Haldeman (Ace)
* Mainspring, Jay Lake (Tor)
* The Execution Channel, Ken MacLeod (Orbit UK; Tor)
* Brasyl, Ian McDonald (Pyr; Gollancz)
* Black Man, Richard Morgan (Gollancz; Del Rey as Thirteen)
* Shelter, Susan Palwick (Tor)
* Engineer Trilogy: Devices and Desires / Evil for Evil / The Escapement, K. J. Parker (Orbit UK; Orbit US)
* The Prefect, Alastair Reynolds (Gollancz; Ace 6/08)
* Sixty Days and Counting, Kim Stanley Robinson (Bantam Spectra; HarperCollins UK)
* Bad Monkeys, Matt Ruff (HarperCollins; Bloomsbury UK)
* Queen of Candesce, Karl Schroeder (Tor)
* Halting State, Charles Stross (Ace)
* Ha’Penny, Jo Walton (Tor)
* Axis, Robert Charles Wilson (Tor)

NOMINEES: 2008 Philip K. Dick Award

from Locus Online News via SF Signal:

Nominees for this year's Philip K. Dick Award, given annually for distinguished science fiction published in paperback original form in the United States, have been announced:

• Grey, Jon Armstrong (Night Shade)
• Undertow, Elizabeth Bear (Bantam Spectra)
• From the Notebooks of Dr. Brain, Minister Faust (Del Rey)
• Nova Swing, M. John Harrison (Bantam Spectra)
• Gradisil, Adam Roberts (Pyr)
• Ally, Karen Traviss (Eos)
• Saturn Returns, Sean Williams (Ace)